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- Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
- Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done.
- Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.